Seyyed Hossein Nasr - "Sunnism and Shi'ism: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"

In Hartford Seminary's Biennial Willem Bijlefeld Lecture, Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr explores the history of the relationship between Sunnism and Shi'ism, which goes back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad. Dr. Nasr discussed the manipulation for political interests of Sunni-Shi'ite differences by forces both internal and external to the Islamic world and reflected on the future of the relationship between Sunnism and Shi'ism and the impact it is likely to have within the Islamic world itself and in its relation to the West.

The Willem A. Bijlefeld Lecture, named after the first director of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary, brings a distinguished scholar to campus for a public presentation on Islam or Christian-Muslim relations to promote interreligious understanding and mutual respect in the local, national and world communities.

Seyyed Hossain Nasr is University Professor of Islamic Studies at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

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[Dan Schmidt VBB]

Interesting lecture. Need to improve sound quality.

[MrResearcher122]

Informative and insightful. Thank you for the upload.

[eshedu1]

he is intelligent man,BUT

he love philosophy and keep loving shiat after all,so what suni have to do with his point of view?to agree with him? on what? imam Ali was muslim........imam Abu Bakar was muslim,the rest of the story is the same as all wordl going thru even today till the end of human civilisation it is call GREED........!

[NH3LONEPAIR]

He's sure not a typical twelver, he's a philosopher after all.

[LuckyDukeSeven]

If he's a twelver, he has some radically unorthodox beliefs. His interpretation of the schism here is a Sunni one.

[LuckyDukeSeven]

He's certainly not an Ismali.

[NH3LONEPAIR]

He is a Twelver

[Richard Johnson]

Is Seyyed Hossein Nasr a Twelver or Ismaili or? :)

[Daniel Shore]

More like a confused audience. Pray tell me where he says the USA should be funding the 'Shii crescent'? And even if he did, how is it a contradiction. Further, even if it was (which it isn't), I'd love to see you justify your claim that it is riddled with contradictions, when I heard none. I can only conclude you don't know what a 'contradiction' is.

[Daniel Shore]

Clearly he is talking about Muslim demographics only.

[Mohammad Asgary]

Thank you Hartford Seminary! May God bless you with a better audio system (: